Message and Meaning

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Message and Meaning
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Two Dramatic Developments

• Scientific Advances
• Information Age

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Information Explosion

• Primary source for information about news and
  current events?

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Pervasive Technology

• Computers
• Jobs done with speed and efficiency
• Artificial Intelligence
• Shared knowledge

• Television
• Live telecasts news
• Fabric of American society
• Reliable source of information?

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Activity

• Take your story try to come up with one way you
  would make it into a headline for a newspaper
  one way you would make it a televised news report
  (to act out) be creative
• Looking for the one with the most appeal to the
  audience

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New Directions in Science and Philosophy
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String Theory

• B.1962
• The Elegant Universe
• Multiple universes all connected

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Chaos Theory

• Shape and structure of matter
• Universal randomized patterns

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The Genome and the Body

• Revolutionize medicine
• Cloning
• Cognitive Neuroscience

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Language Theory

• Philosophy
• Truths dominated by language
• Pictures of reality
• Ludwig Wittgenstien (1889-1951)

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Postmodernism

• Not just a reaction
• 1960s Cultural tradition
• Primarily in the West
• Blends high low art

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Warhol, Green Coco-Cola Bottles, 1962 PopArt
Warhol website
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Literature in the Information Age

• Postmodernism
• Magic Realism
• Universal Voice
• Science Fiction